Atlanta Athletic Club’s Highlands Course in Johns Creek, Georgia, is the host site of this week’s KPMG Women’s PGA Championship, a major on the LPGA.
The layout originally was designed by Robert Trent Jones Sr. and Joe Finger, who each designed nine of the holes, with Jones’ nine opening in 1967 and Finger’s addition in 1971. Rees Jones, son of the original architect, has worked on the club’s courses since 1994 and renovated the Highlands in 2006 and again in 2016.
The course has been the site of numerous elite championships, including:
- 1976 U.S. Open (won by Jerry Pate)
- 1981 PGA Championship (Larry Nelson)
- 2001 PGA Championship (David Toms)
- 2002 U.S. Junior Amateur (Charlie Beljan)
- 2011 PGA Championships (Keegan Bradley)
- 2014 U.S. Amateur (Gunn Yang)
- The club’s other 18-hole course, Riverside, was the site of the 1990 U.S. Women’s Open (Betsy King), as well as many other tournaments.
The Highlands ranks as No. 10 in Georgia on Golfweek’s Best Private Courses list and is tied for No. 130 on Golfweek’s Best Modern Courses list for layouts opened in or after 1960 in the United States.
Thanks to yardage books provided by Puttview – the maker of detailed yardage books for more than 30,000 courses around the world – we can see exactly the challenges that players will face this week. Check out each hole below.